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I'd argue that those are still jobs lost to automation, that just weren't mourned like jobs are today because they weren't lost after decades of huge swatches of jobs being taken over by automation.
When billboard painters were replaced there were 1000 other places they could go. When today's fiverr app artist loses their small niche income to AI, they're losing what was already their last ditch artistic income. It's the same issue, but the scale makes it hit WAY harder now.
Yeah, you're probably right. I still see plenty of artists that are able to scrape by on a combination of comissions and furry porn, but I think the bigger problem generally is just that, as wealth inequality grows and cost of living gets worse and worse, which doesn't seem to be like it's gonna be something that gets better globally because of climate change, I don't think the consumer market is going to be able to step up and substitute some of this billboard work for "actual" artistic work, or, more free artistic work. I think otherwise, that might've been the case, more.
The efficiency gains, what would otherwise let people save more money to spend on things like artists, are all being sucked up by rich dudes, and not your average joe. Sucks omega hard.